hide python window, con'td

[Robin Becker]

Larry Bates wrote:
> Something that runs all day in the background is a perfect candidate
> for being turned into a Service.  That and servicemanager has a good
> way of managing the task so that it doesn't take up lots of excess
> CPU cycles that a "normal" application would take while sleeping
> or unnecessarily looping.  Pick up a copy of Mark Hammond's Python
> Programming on Win32 book for example services in Python.  You could
> then start/stop the service with service manager or with net start/
> net stop commands.
> 
> -Larry Bates
> 
> Bell, Kevin wrote:
>> Great!  And now that it's hiding w/ .pyw, how would I kill it if I want?
>> Just log off, or is there a better way?
>>
>> Kevin
>>
>>
It is possible to get a background process in windows especially with 
Python-2.4, but it's fairly hard.

try using

python runner.py dingo.py

where

###### runner.py
def bgScript(script,scriptArgs):
     from _subprocess import CreateProcess
     class STARTUPINFO:
         dwFlags = 0
         hStdInput = None
         hStdOutput = None
         hStdError = None
     class pywintypes:
         error = IOError
     import sys
     exe = sys.executable.replace('n.exe','nw.exe')
     startupinfo = STARTUPINFO()
     args = ''.join([' "%s"' % a for a in scriptArgs])
     cmd = '"%s" "%s" %s' % (exe,script,args)
     try:
         hp, ht, pid, tid = CreateProcess(None, cmd,
                                 # no special security
                                 None, None,
                                 0,  #don't inherit standard handles
                                 0x208,
                                 None,
                                 None,
                                 startupinfo)
     except pywintypes.error, e:
         print str(e)

if __name__=='__main__':
     import sys
     bgScript(sys.argv[1],sys.argv[2:])
###### dingo.py
if __name__=='__main__':
     import time
     for i in xrange(15):
         time.sleep(1)
######

dingo.py shoul be running in the background detached from the console. 
Of course as others point out, the official way to do this stuff is to 
use all the M$ paraphernalia and have stuff start up at boot time etc etc.
-- 
Robin Becker